Stolenwine Records Lived Here, 2003-2006 |
If the bands were the parents of these albums and singles, perhaps we were the midwives at the birth, watching and fussing over the delivery before sending these new creatures out into the world with a cheery wave at the hospital gate. Or perhaps we stretch the metaphor too far. Regardless, whilst we neither wrote or played a note on any of them, in the euphoria of that first box of vinyl arriving from the plant with our logo emblazened on the centre labels, nobody could have persuaded us that they weren't every bit ours.
There were many other highs. Hearing John Peel play the Hector Collectors on the radio fulfilled all our teenage fantasies. Thee Moths being reviewed in the NME was beyond our expectations. Anna Kashfi were the first, and only, Stolenwine band to grace your television screens.
The truth is, sadly, more commonplace and prosaic. We ran out of money, became consumed with our day jobs, and our stubborn commitment to vinyl didn't sit well in a modernising industry. With John Peel sadly gone, the NME reinvented and the days of strong, independent distributors a thing of the past, we were out of step and out of time.
It was time to call it a day and let the kids have a go.
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